And I dont mean of we were logically talking about the language etymologically, I mean words that make sense on your brain with a different spelling. Unreasonable stupid spellings.
For me:
- Colledge for college
- Occean for ocean
- Pation for passion
These were mistakes I made as a kid and I get it
The word yacht or the way it is pronounced.
I have to look up the spelling of “necessary” every time. Just make is nessessary.
It’s English. First it’s needed to make the spelling and sounding uniform.
read read red dread
Tough though through
Queue needs more voweis
The number of extra “ue” should be proportional to the number of people in the queue. Ex: “Oh no, there’s a queue” “Could be worse, could be a queueueue”
There are so many silent letters in English, quite confusing
Webster tried to reform English, and was a reason for a number of the American English changes from British English. Some of his changes caught on, like “public” for “publick” or “jail” for “gaol”.
But others did not.
I think that some of those ones that didn’t catch on would be good candidates.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53723/26-noah-webster’s-spelling-changes-didn’t-catch
E.g. “Island” to “Iland”.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/noah-websters-spelling-wins-and-fails
Or “is” to “iz”.
Possessive is normally done with an apostrophe. The dog’s toy. The apartment’s lobby.
But when possessive goes on the pronoun “it”? No apostrophe.
Look out for the monster. Its fangs are sharp.
If you put an apostrophe, that’s for “it is”.
This bothers me slightly. There’s history illinonating why it happened, but I don’t like it.
The “dk” in your title should probably be spelled “do.”
Colonel needs an R in it, or to be pronounced co-lo-nel instead of ker-nel.
There’s an interesting history behind the word colonel. IIRC, the English “coronel” and the French “colonel” used to be used somewhat interchangeably. Eventually, we kept the French spelling but the English pronunciation.
Perfect post to have a typo in.
Also ‘in’ your brain, not ‘on’ it
I just wish we would consolidate on 5 letter words ending with EL and LE as to what the order should be.
Why is it “table” and “label”? They’re basically the same word minus the first letter, but the spellings are different. I hate it.
Subtel?
Cannible?
Baesball?
You are right, it’s a mess :)
I get this. I like it
